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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the ninth yeare of king Edwards reigne, Anno Reg 9. 1281 the feast of the round table was kept at Warwike with great and sumptuous triumph.The feast of the round ta|ble holden as Warwike. Dauid the brother of Leolin re [...]|teth, and be|commeth a rebell. Whilest these things were in dooing, Dauid brother to Leolin prince of Wales, forgetting the great benefits which he had receiued at the hands of king Edward, became his aduersarie, and caused his said brother the prince of Wales with a great number of other noble men of that countrie to rebell: and to incourage them the sooner to attempt the warre, he began the first ex|ploit himselfe,The lord Clifford taken. taking the said lord Roger Clifford (a right worthie and famous knight) in his castell of Hawardine, vpon Palme sundaie, the said lord being in no doubt of any such matter. Diuerse knights and other that were in the same castell at that time, and made resistance, were slaine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this the foresaid Dauid returned to his bro|ther the prince, and therewith assembling an armie,The castell of Rutland be|sieged. they went both togither and besieged the castell of EEBO page image 281 Rutland. King Edward at the same time being in the parts about Salisburie, where he kept his Easter at the Uies, sent out commissioners to leauie an ar|mie, and commanded such men of warre as he had then in a readinesse, to hast foorth to the rescue of the castell of Rutland.The castell of Lamperde|uaux taken. And in the meane time, the castell of Lamperdeuaux was taken by Rice ap Malgone and Griffith ap Meridoc. Also diuerse other castels were taken by other of the Welsh nobilitie. Moreo|uer, about this time by the labour and suit of Iohn the archbishop of Canturburie, Emericke de Mont|fort,Emericke de Montfort set at libertie. which had béene reteined in prison (sith that he was first taken togither with his sister at the Isle of Sillie by the Bristowmen) was now set at libertie and permitted to returne into France. The said archbishop of Canturburie was sent into Wales to persuade Leolin and his brother with the other re|bels vnto peace and quietnesse,Leolin and other the W [...]lsh rebels accurssed. Anno Reg. 10. but returning into England, without bringing anie thing to passe, he de|nounced them accurssed.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king hasted foorth to come to the rescue of his people,The king en|treth into Wales. wherevpon Leolin and his brother Dauid re|tired with their people to Snowdon hilles, and forti|fied the castell there with a strong garrison of men. The king entring into Wales, when he heard that his enimies were withdrawne into the mounteins, passed foorth till he came neere vnto them, where he pitched downe his field, and the next day causing his horssemen to issue foorth of the campe, filled all the plaines which compasse the foot of those hilles (aswell on the east side as toward the south) with the same horssemen, and herewith placed his footmen more a|loft on the side of the hilles in couert: this doone he prouoked his enimie to come foorth to fight, but when he saw this would not be, then that he might stop them from all places of refuge, he caused his ships to take the Isle of Anglesey, bicause the Welshmen vsed to flie thither oftentimes for their safegard, in the which enterprise the mariners of the cinque ports bare themselues right manfullie.The mari|ners of the cinque ports.

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